Ideas for an English Club for High School Students

Sameera · Post by **Sameera** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 4:53 pm

Hi all,

We're planning to open an English Club at our school and because this is our first experience, I was hoping that I could benefit from your great ideas. Our students are girls aged 15-18.

If you have a club at your school or could lead me to sites with useful information, I would be grateful if you would share them with me.

Thank you

Sally Olsen · Post by **Sally Olsen** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 6:28 pm

It would be great if you could get a permanent room for this activity because you could build up your materials and equipment over the years and pass it on so it could be more permanent. I would highly recommend a karaoke machine with English songs. A large mirror so the students can practice dance routines with the songs and see what they look like. A TV with VCR or DVD player so you can watch English movies with the Englis subtitles. Lots of books and magazines. Games like Scrabble, Upwords or Trivial Pursuit, etc. Lots of comfy places to sit - preferrably couches and pillows on rugs. Colourful posters of movies and popular bands or singers. Coffee or tea available with little snacks. Make it as comfortable and as non-school like as possible. How about a tape recorder, a video camera and a digetal camera so they can make movies, books and newletters for up-to-date English materials. If you can cook that would be fun as well to do English recipes and would provide you different snacks. Use posters and decorations to celebrate the various holidays associated with English speaking countries. Have a Halloween party, a Christmas party and so on with games appropriate to the season.

Sameera · Post by **Sameera** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 9:11 pm

Thanx very much Sally for those great ideas. As a matter of fact, we have been given a room for the Club and I've already put a T.V, a VCD, a cassette/CD player as well as two computers in the room; what I have to do now is to put a plan and decide on type of activities to be applied in the Club and the type of students that I would choose as members. You gave some great ideas and I will surely put them in my plan. Thanx again.